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Why Richard Sherman Says ‘Thug’ Is the Same as the N-Word
Player’s Comments Prompt Debate Over ‘T-Word’ “Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman held a press conference Wednesday in which he addressed the backlash to his fiery post-game rant this week and the fact that so many people called him a thug,” Josh Feldman wrote Wednesday for Mediaite. “In fact the word was dropped quite a lot…
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Legalized Marijuana: Will White People Get All the Good Weed?
If the president of the United States says legalizing marijuana is all good, then it must be, right? If the first two states to fully legalize pot are sending their NFL teams to the Super Bowl, then the green stuff must not be all that bad, correct? And if 55 percent of Americans are fine…
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MLK Decried the Psychological Enslavement of Blacks
There is a sad irony in the fact that we are celebrating what would have been the 85th birthday of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., just a month after the New York Times focused national attention on the gap in breast-cancer survival rates between black and white women. This news came on top of…
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Herbie Hancock Named Professor of Poetry at Harvard
Herbie Hancock, one of the architects of contemporary American music, who has left his fingerprints in just about every form of the art, is now the Harvard University 2014 Norton Professor of Poetry, BBC reports. The jazz legend will deliver six lectures on a variety of topics, according to Rolling Stone. His talks will mostly…
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Which Black Man Told Jefferson He Was Racist?
Editor’s note: For those who are wondering about the retro title of this black-history series, please take a moment to learn about historian Joel A. Rogers, author of the 1934 book 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro With Complete Proof, to whom these “amazing facts” are an homage. Amazing Fact About the Negro No. 63: Which black man engaged a…
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The MHP-Romney Saga Grew a 2nd Head on Social Media
MSNBC host Melissa Harris-Perry tearfully apologized Saturday for poking fun at a Mitt Romney family photo that included his adopted African-American grandson, but the apology failed to end a discussion that initially seemed mired in political posturing. Politics, Race, Mormonism and Babies a Volatile Mix “Several days later the controversy seems only to have grown larger…
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Brutal Prizefighter Injuries Raise Questions About Coverage
Some Still Say Fighters Fare Better in Ring Than in Streets “In the span of two weeks last fall, two prizefighters went to the hospital after their bouts. Francisco Leal, 26, died of a brain injury after a knockout loss to Raul Hirales on October 19,” Alan Neuhauser wrote Thursday for Columbia Journalism Review. “Magomed…
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Beyoncé Called ‘Insensitive’ by NASA Community
Looks like not everyone is happy with Beyoncé’s new album. Some current and former NASA astronauts have labeled the songstress “insensitive” for using audio of the space shuttle Challenger at the beginning of her video for “XO,” ABC News reports. Jan. 28, 1986, the nation watched live as the space shuttle exploded 73 seconds…
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White Teacher to Black Student: We Don’t Need Another Black President
A white Cincinnati-area teacher has been suspended for allegedly telling an African-American student that “we do not need another black president” after the student said he would like to become president, the Cincinnati Inquirer reports. The Fairfield Board of Education suspended Fairfield Freshman School science teacher Gil Voigt after he allegedly made the comments with…
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25-Year-Old DJ to Become 1st Black South African in Space
Mandla Maseko was born and raised in a dusty township in South Africa and never dreamed his life would be as big as it has become. “I’m not trying to make this a race thing but us blacks grew up dreaming to a certain stage. You dreamed of being a policeman or a lawyer but…